Edge Forms Partnership with NOAA N-Wave

NEWARK, NJ, January 12, 2024–Edge (NJEdge.net, Inc.) is pleased to partner with NOAA N-Wave to enable the organization as it expands and updates its vast range of services. N-Wave is the advanced, high-speed, and highly scalable network service provider operating from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). While it’s known as “NOAA’s Network,” N-Wave has expanded to serve multiple agencies in the U.S. federal government.

N-Wave recently joined forces with Edge to identify ways to elevate the network experience and expand their reach within the stakeholder community. To continue to effectively find networking solutions that benefit their stakeholder partners, leveraging the Science, Research, and Education (SR&E) community has been instrumental in advancing their overall mission and has been the foundation of what they do. N-Wave has several partners within the SR&E community, including Edge, Internet2, and the Global Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) at Indiana University. 

“Edge is excited to partner with NOAA N-Wave as it expands into the future in supporting the mission of important stakeholders such as NOAA to advance science,” says Dr. Forough Ghahramani, Assistant Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Sponsored Programs for Edge. “We welcome the N-Wave team to the Edge community. It has been a pleasure to participate in N-Wave convenings and gain access to its collaborative community.”

Bruce Tyrrell, AVP, Programs and Services, Edge further elaborates, “Edge worked diligently with N-Wave, NOAA and Internet2 to design and deliver highly available, 100Gb connectivity to their Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ. Subsequently, Edge partnered with NOAA and Princeton University to identify optimal local fiber infrastructure to connect the GFDL to Edge’s existing DWDM nodes at the University. Continued Tyrrell, “Our existing optical network enabled quick provisioning of geographically-diverse connections via our New Jersey Internet2 Gigapop platform, providing service via New York City and Philadelphia.”

“N-Wave is proud to partner with Edge and its full array of networking and technical services to strengthen and expand the high quality customer offerings we provide in support of our federal agency customers and their important missions,” said Robert Sears, N-Wave Director. “The key to N-Wave’s success is its collaboration with partners, such as Edge, who provide reliable resources and the expert knowledge necessary to keep up with emerging technologies essential to maintaining a secure network and enabling future growth opportunities.”

“Edge is pleased to partner with NOAA N-Wave to provide complementary services and resources, and ensure necessary access through Edge’s robust networking infrastructure, for NOAA and other N-Wave stakeholders in support of network performance enhancements and data transfer needs for research. We are enthusiastic about the possibilities of this strategic partnership,” comments Dr. Samuel Conn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Edge.

About NOAA:

From daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings, and climate monitoring to fisheries management, coastal restoration and supporting marine commerce, NOAA’s products and services support economic vitality and affect more than one-third of America’s gross domestic product. NOAA’s dedicated scientists use cutting-edge research and high-tech instrumentation to provide citizens, planners, emergency managers and other decision makers with reliable information they need, when they need it.

NOAA’s mission to better understand our natural world and help protect its precious resources extends beyond national borders to monitor global weather and climate, and work with partners around the world. To learn more about NOAA, please visit https://www.noaa.gov/about-our-agency.   

About N-Wave:

N-Wave delivers stable, secure, high-speed network services to enable the vast missions of its stakeholder community within the federal government. Our national network infrastructure extends across the contiguous U.S., Alaska and Hawaii — reaching remote field sites, major campuses, data centers and supercomputing facilities. Combined with our scalable cloud solutions, robust catalog of enterprise managed services and advanced network operations. 

N-Wave supports all stakeholder missions with integrity, transparency and flexibility and employs a unique partnership approach to provide the best customer experience. The N-Wave Program Office operates under the Office of the Chief Information Officer within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 

N-Wave is NOAA’s network service provider and has expanded to serve other federal government agencies. For more information about N-Wave, please visit: nwave.noaa.gov. . 

About Edge:

Founded in 2000, Edge, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, serves as a purpose-built research and education wide area network and technology solutions partner. Edge connects members with affordable, easy access to high-performance optical networking, commodity Internet and Internet2 services, and a variety of technology-powered products, solutions, and services. The Edge member consortium consists of colleges and universities, K-12 schools and districts, government entities, healthcare networks, and businesses spread throughout the continental US. The group is governed by the New Jersey Presidents’ Council with offices in Newark, Princeton, and Wall Township, NJ. For more information, please visit: www.njedge.net.

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